2.5 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1930-[ca. 1959]
Scope and Contents:
Scrapbooks on artists.
REEL 832: Seven scrapbooks, ca. 1930-1950, compiled by autograph collector Jerome Milkman on artists Lyonel Feininger, Jimmy Ernst, Antonio Frasconi, William Morris Hunt, Christopher Pearse Cranch, David Smith, and Jack Tworkov. Scrapbooks contain clippings, catalogs, and photographs. Also contained are 14 letters and postcards signed by the artists, and one letter by William Hunt's wife Rosamond Pier Hunt, about the watercolorist Eliot O'Hara.
UNMICROFILMED: Scrapbooks, 1930-1950, containing autographs, autograph letters, clippings, and cartoons of 281 cartoonists, and 187 sculptors and illustrators.
Biographical / Historical:
Autograph collector; New York, N.Y. Milkman amassed large collection of artists' autograph letters and printed reproductions of their work. Most of the material was sold at auction.
Provenance:
Material on reel 832 was purchased 1968 by the Archives of American Art from Jerome Milkman; unmicrofilmed material donated 1976 by Evelyn M. Sultan, daughter of Milkman.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Letters, notes, business records, art works, printed material, and photographs relating to Ward's involvement in the American Artists' Congress (1936-1945), the Artists League of America (1934-1949), the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (1944-1948), the Limited Editions Club competition (1932-1957), and the Society of American Graphic Artists (1940-1964). Artists represented in the files include Grace Albee, John Taylor Arms, Fritz Eichenberg, Antonio Frasconi, Jacob Kainen, Clare Leighton, Prentiss Taylor, Max Weber, Stow Wengenroth, Art Young, Adja Yunkers, William Zorach.
Biographical / Historical:
Lynd Ward (1905-1985) was a printmaker, illustrator, and writer in Cresskill, New Jersey. Illustrated over 100 books. President, Society of American Graphic Artists, 1953-1959.
Provenance:
Donated 1972-1973 by Lynd Ward.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Included are extensive memoirs of William Henry Fox director of the museum for over 25 years; scattered records of the Brooklyn Institute, 1823-1873; catalogs for Brooklyn Museum exhibits (4 1/2 reels) and for exhibits held in various galleries and museums, primarily in N.Y. (14 reels); brief records of the Dept. of Painting and Sculpture primarily relating to Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington; records of the Dept. of Prints and Drawings, mainly regarding exhibitions, including correspondence, much of it with curator Una Johnson, correspondence with art dealers, files on artists, and statistics on exhibitions, 1936-1939; and records of the Registrar's office, 1933-1936, regarding the museum's involvement in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, mainly the Graphic Arts Division.
Dept. of Prints & Drawings artists files relate to: Grace Albee, Josef Albers, Glen Alps, Maxil Ballinger, Leonard Baskin, Wilfred Roloff Beny, Fiske Boyd, Robert Broner, Edmond Casarella, Minna Citron, Robert Conover, Worden Day, Arthur Deshaies, Werner Drewes, Antonio Frasconi, Leon Goldin, William Gropper, Stanley William Hayter, Helen West Heller, Margo Hoff, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, David Lang, Ezio Martinelli, Seong Moy, Danny Pierce, Rudolph Pozzatti, Peter Sager, Louis Schanker, Karl Schrag, Susanne Suba, Maltby Sykes, Peter Takal, John Von Wicht, Sylvia Wald, Hyman Warsager, Max Weber, Toshi Yoshida, Richard Zoellner, and others.
Other correspondents of note (reels BR21-22) include John Taylor Arms, Mary Cassatt (1 letter, 1903), George Overbury "Pop" Hart, Mrs. Gaston Lachaise, Joseph Pennell (re Whistler), and a group from art dealers.
Also included are papers of and related to Austrian artist Emil Fuchs, including letters regarding commissions, a list of books and prints, and miscellany.
Biographical / Historical:
The Brooklyn Museum had its roots in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded 1823. The Museum was formed in 1889.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1964-1965 by Brooklyn Museum.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
The records of New York art gallery Terry Dintenfass, Inc. date from 1947 to 1987, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1961 to 1983, and measure 22.1 linear feet. The records are comprised of administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, and financial records.
Scope and Contents:
The records of New York art gallery Terry Dintenfass, Inc. date from 1947 to 1987, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1961 to 1983, and measure 22.1 linear feet. The records include administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, and financial records.
Administrative files include advertising and membership records, insurance documents, a guest book, resumes, and agreements with other corporations. Correspondence is with artists, galleries, museums, and arts organizations. There is a significant amount of correspondence regarding the Art Dealers Association of America.
Exhibition files are found for numerous exhibitions to which Dintenfass either loaned art or helped to organize. There is extensive documentation of the 20 Galleries/20 Years exhibition held at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery and the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in 1982 and the "Machine Themed Shows" in 1974-1975.
Artists' files comprise the largest group of materials within the collection. Files for Hyman Bloom, Alan Cober, Arthur Dove, Philip Evergood, Richard Fleischner, Antonio Frasconi, Sidney Goodman, William King, Jacob Lawrence, Richard Merkin, Horace Pippin, Paul Suttman, and Harold Tovish bulk the largest.
Financial records contain artist expense and sales ledgers, consignment papers, invoices and receipts, as well as records for D Contemporary Paintings.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 5 series.
Series 1: Administrative Files, 1961-1983 (1.0 linear feet; Box 1)
Series 2: Correspondence, 1961-1981 (1.0 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)
Series 3: Exhibition Files, 1962-1983 (4.5 linear feet; Boxes 2-7, OV 23)
Series 4: Artists' Files, 1947-1987 (8.5 linear feet; Boxes 7-15, OV 23)
Series 5: Financial Records, 1959-1981 (7.0 linear feet; Boxes 16-22, OV 23)
Biographical / Historical:
Terry Dintenfass, Inc. is a New York City art gallery founded in 1959 by Terry Dintenfass (1920-2004).
In 1954, Theresa "Terry" Dintenfass opened D Contemporary Paintings in Atlantic City, New Jersey. With financial backing from Armand Erpf, she moved the gallery to New York City in 1959 and changed the name to Terry Dintenfass Gallery. There, she became a protégé of Downtown Gallery owner Edith Halpert. Dintenfass was one of several notable female art dealers in the city during the 1940s-1980s among Edith Halpert, Betty Parsons, Grace Borgenicht, Antoinette Kraushaar, and others. She showed work on consignment from other dealers, and when Edith Halpert retired, Terry Dintenfass, Inc. began to represent the estate of Arthur Dove. Other notable artists represented by the gallery included social realists Philip Evergood and Robert Gwathmey, and African American painters Horace Pippin and Jacob Lawrence, whom she represented for 25 years. The gallery's stable also included William King, Sidney Goodman, Hyman Bloom, Antonio Frasconi, and others.
After Dintenfass retired in 1999, her son Andrew took over the business and continues to run the gallery today. Terry Dintenfass died in 2004 in Manhattan.
Related Materials:
Also found at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Terry Dintenfass conducted by Paul Cummings on December 2, 1974-January 13, 1975 for the Archives of American Art.
Provenance:
The collection was donated in 1995 by Terry Dintenfass.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Rights:
The Terry Dintenfass, Inc. records are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Interview of Antonio Frasconi conducted 1971 June 9, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
Biographical / Historical:
Antonio Frasconi (1919-) is an illustrator, painter, and printmaker from Norwalk, Conn.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
5.4 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1954-1977
Scope and Contents:
Files on artists, exhibitions, events, associates, other galleries, and other subjects pertaining to the activities of the gallery. The bulk of the records (4 ft. out of 5.4) are not microfilmed; records on reels 3986-3987 consist of fifty-five artists' files containing exhibition catalogs, announcements, clippings, photographs and slides of the artist and their works of art, and some correspondence. The Thomas Cornell file contains a sketch. Of the 55 files, all but 14 are also represented with additional material in the unmicrofilmed section. The 14 files only on microfilm are: Robin Bagler, Thomas Bang, Morris Broderson, Theo William Brown, Thomas George, John Hultberg, Shiro Ikegawa, Thomas Johnson, Knox Martin, Alfred Martinez, Miles Varner, Shane Weale, Cady Wells, and William Williamson.
The following files are unmicrofilmed, or are represented in both microfilmed and unmicrofilmed portions: Academy of Arts and Letters, Advertising and Rate Sheets, Affiliates, African Art, African Art/ correspondence, Oliver Andrews, Archives of American Art, Michael Arntz, Art Dealers, Art Magazines, Art week, Ruth Asawa, Margaret Ash, Atlantic-Richfield Co., Michael Ayrton, Robin Bagler, Jack Baker, George Ball, Thomas Bang, Mat Baranoff, Kate Barnard, Leonard Baskin, Robert and Lynn Bassler, John Baxter, Herbert Bayer, Donald Bear Collection, Mona Beaumont, Adele Bednarz, Bekins, Karl Benjamin, Berlin Artists, John Bernhardt, Glenn Berry, Frank G. Bettencourt, Biographies of Artists, Robert Birmelin, William Brackney, William Brice, Donald Brewer, Morris Broderson, Theo William Brown, Lawrence Calcagno, Elena Karina Canavier, Cart & Crate, Ann Caudle, Hugh Chisholm, Christmas Show, Consignments to Bear Gallery, Consignments Out, Corda (See Zajac), Chris Cordes, Thomas Cornell, Christopher Cornell, Cottage Hospital, Russell Cowles, Michael Cunningham, Stephen Cortright, Florence Dauber, Kip Decker, Delinquent Accounts, Terry Dintefass, Dole-photos, William Dole, Arthur Dove, Margaret Dunlap, Michael Dvortcsak,
Don Eddy, Christopher Edwards, Melvin Edwards, M. H. Eejima, Rex Evans Gallery, Bruce Everett, Edgar Ewing, Exhibitions-Prospective, Export Declaration Forms, Kelly Fearing, Howard Fenton, Sam Francis, Antonio Frasconi,Esther Bear Gallery, Gehenna Press, Thomas George, Graphic Price Lists, Henry Guerriero, Edith Halpert (Downtown Gallery), Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Clarence Hinkle, Joseph Hirshhorn, Elwood Hitchcock, Thomas Howe, John Hultberg, Martha Hultberg (Martha Jackson Gallery), Shiro Ikegawa, Martha Jackson Gallery, Thomas Johnson, Ynez Johnston, Lila Katzen, Masatoyo Kishi, Martin Knox, Gabriel Kohn, Eloul Kosso/Rita Letendre, Patsy Krebs, Kiyoki Kusada, Felix Landau, Margo Leavin Gallery, Richard Lee, Lefal Reference-James Wood, David Ligave, Long Beach Museum, Dan Lutz, Susan Manchester, Leo Manso, Miguel Marina, Knox Martin, Alfred Martinez, Michael Mazur, Michael McCormick, Michael Michalczyk, Joan Mitchell, Mike Mullen, Lee Mullican, Newport Harbor-Fine Arts Patrons, New Room, O'Hanlon,
Mabel Packenham-Walsh, Betty Parsons Gallery, Channing Peake, Franklin Phillips, Photos-Time Magazine, Leona Pierce, Hank Pitcher, Reginald Pollack, Aline Porter, Ernest Posey, Print Show-1964, Prints, William Ptaszynski, Rea Express, Fred Reichman, Rental Gallery-LAC MA, Rental Gallery-Santa Barbara Museum, Daniel Rich, George Rickey, Esther Robles, William Rohrbach, Ben Sakogochi, Stephen Samerjan, Ruth Saturensky, Ruth Schaffner, Julius Schmidt, Fritz Scholder, Marc Schreibman, Amalia Schulthess, Sculpture Show 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, Denry Seldis, Sept. 14 Show, Stanley Sheinbaum, Mario Shinoda, Eloise Smith, Seldon Spaulding, Rudolf Springer, Jack Stark, James Strobotne, Joan Tanner, Bob Thomas, Richard Thompson, Time Reproductions, Paul Tuttle, UCLA Graduates, Miles Varner, Theodore Villa,Judith Von Ever, Vonerberg & Wesslehoeft, Peter Vought, John Waggamann, Mrs. Corydon Wagner, Nina de Creeft Ward, Howard Warshaw, Watergate Book-Warshow, Anna Wu Weakland, Shane Weale, Cady Wells, William Williamson, Jane Wilson, Wonner-Brown, Paul Wonner, Jules S. Worthington, Jack Zajac, and Jacob Zeitlen.
Arrangement:
Alphabetical arrangement by artist/associate.
Biographical / Historical:
Commercial art gallery; Santa Barbara, Calif. Specializing in contemporary art.
Provenance:
Donated by Esther Bear, 1978-1987.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm.
Interviews are untranscribed; use requires an appointment and is limited to AAA's Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y Research Centers. Interviews without a duplicate copy requires advance notice
The donor has specified as a condition of the gift that the tapes may not be transcribed or edited
